Ko Ngati Puhi taku iwi Ko Epere toku papa Ko Katherine toku mama Ko Vanessa taku tuahine Ko Manu raua Ko Tommi taku tungane Ko Heretaunga toku kainga Ko Riverslea toku kura Ko Te Orihana taku ingoa No reira tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa
My Goals 2016
Feb-Mar
Mar/ Updated in May
Term 3 (Extended in T4)
Term 4 2016
Term 4 was full of learning and activities.We had lots of things going on at Riverslea and around.
We had an awesome Duffy Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger and Peter Charlton Jones.
We also had the School Cross Country and also did lots of Play based learning
to try to learn to share and cooperate and work together.
We went to the A and P Show as well as visited Barnadoes Preschool
and the Riverslea Community Preschool, who also visited us.
We loved Skipping and Jump Rope for Heart.
The trip to Napier and the Aquarium was fun.
We had the School Prizegiving and made up our own song “The 12 Days of Riverslea Christmas”
We are all looking forward to Xmas and Next year
(Mrs B )
I have reached my goal for Reading and have gone up 8 levels in reading this year.
I am at Level 22 which is a year above National Standard.
I am at Stage 5 Maths which is also above National Standard
and have gone up from Stage 3 to Stage 5 this year.
I have also gone up a level in Writing and am at National Standard.
Te Orihana.
August/Sept
We are still learning and being involved in lots of activities. Our Inquiry has been about the Rio Olympics 2016. We learnt a lot about different countries and different sports. We each had our own country at the Olympics. Harmony’s country USA came first with the most medals. They got 116 medals ( 43gold, 37 silver, 36 bronze). Te Orihana came 2nd with Great Britain who got 66 medals. Kadyn had NZ who got 18 medals (4gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze). We also watched some of the ParaOlympics which made the students aware of different disabilities and how people use ways to overcome them to win medals eg Blind cyclists and runners and swimmers with only 1 leg. We had our own school Olympics which the students loved. They also got medals. Participation for the tabloids and Gold, Silver ,Bronze for the age races. It was well supported by whanau. All students have made great progress, some being a year above in Reading and 6 months above in Writing and Maths. This term Room 1 has also been involved in a NZ wide programme for Junior classes called #NZReadAloud. We connect with other classes around NZ (10 in all) from Auckland to Dunedin and share our ideas, art work, writing etc on a blog. It is all related to a common chosen book that we are all reading to our class. It is called A Booming in the Night By Ben Brown , a NZ author. As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games. This Term we are learning about Cooperation (Whanaungatanga) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass. We have had ‘Getting started’ again T3 with a council funded programme on fitness and coordination skills. We have had Whaea Toni and Matua Julian this term. Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday has continued. Some of us go and read to them for 15 minutes each. They help sponser our Duffy books. We had a Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger (storyteller) and Peter Charlton-Jones (musician) and got our Duffy books for the Term.We also had 2 Role Models form Karamu High come to talk to use about being leaders. We were lucky to have Mr Kevin a Preschool Teacher volunteer time 2 days a week for most of the term. He fixed all of our school bikes for us. The children are loving being out on the bike track again. Whaea Monique (Student Teacher from last year) also volunteers in the classes 2 days a week. It is great to have her skills and empathy with the students. Another highlight for the students was a visit from 2 Magpies Chris Eaton and Matt Garland. They talked to the students about being role models and then took them for games. They loved the Touch Rugby. It has been another awesome term for Miharo (Room1).
School Olympics. Getting started activities.
The Magpies Rugby team.Playing Touch Rugby. My Nga Toi tile
We've had lots of fun with all the things we've done. I liked the Magpies and doing my tile koru pattern. The Duffy Theatre was fun too. I have gone up another 2 levels in Reading (Level 20) and I am going on Level 21 next week. I love Reading and Spelling,Writing and Maths. I still always get all my words right every week. I like Getting Started. We do lots off activities together. (Te Orihana)
Te Orihana is still making excellent progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
She is a leader of learning and in behaviour in the classroom.
Next we want to further extend her Reading progress(Expected Level 18.)
Our goal was to get to Y3 level (Level 21) by the end of T3.
This has been achieved. She is just starting this level.
As a result she is a year above National Standard in Reading.
We want to get beginning Level 23 by the end of the year.
Level 24 is the next year level to achieve by 9 yrs.
I do not want to push her too hard as she is successful and is finding some of the comprehension
and story topics harder at this level so consolidation and reinforcement of knowledge is also important.
Also to continue to consolidate and extend her written language including
language features and nouns adjectives and verbs.
In Maths we are on target to reach the end of Stage 4 by the end of the year.
(Mrs B)
June/July
June and July were also busy months with 2 weeks holiday in July for the end of Term 2.
We are all still making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry. Some students have gone up several levels in Reading and they, and others, moved up stages in Maths and Writing as well.
In Inquiry we are learning about the Olympic Games in Rio in Term 3.
We loved our Inquiry about Flight and learnt a lot.
We always have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings.
We have fun finding out the information.
As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.
We also have Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings.
We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.
We just had a Duffy Theatre performance about Time Travel and got our Duffy books for the Term. It was great fun.
We also had lots of learning with our class buddies and our school buddies too.
We had Irene Van Dyke a famous NZ Netballer come to speak to us. She was very tall (6ft 3 inches).
She gave us all a bag from Netball Hawkes Bay and some balls for our PE gear.
Paora came from the Council to help us set up a new worm garden. We got to hold the worms. They were slimy.
We also had Todd and Nathan from the Army come and teach us how to march and do push ups. We are Miharo too.We are awesome
My school buddy. Our Inquiry on Flight
Bubbles for Flight. The worm Farm.Holding worms
The Duffy Theatre actors. Marching with Sergeant Nathan from the Army
We have been doing lots of things at school.
I have gone up another level in Reading (Level 18) and I am going on Level 19 next week.
I still love Reading and Spelling and I still always get my words right every week.
I am getting really good at Maths now too.I am on Stage 4.
It was fun blowing bubbles but I didn't like the worms.They were slimy.
The Duffy Theatre was funny. I liked marching with Nathan from the Army.
(Te Orihana)
Te Orihana has been making excellent progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
She is responsible and helpful class member who loves learning.
She is very popular in class and has many friends.
She joins in all activities inside and outside the classroom.
She has a very good memory too.
(She beats me in Memory (the card game) all the time.
Next we want to further extend her Reading progress(Expected Level 16.)
Our goal is to get to Y3 level (Level 21) by the end of T3.
Also to consolidate and extend her written language including
language features.She is using contractions
and our goal is to make more use of verbs and adjectives etc.
In Maths to reach the end of Stage 4 by the end of the year.
(Mrs B)
April/May
We are all making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry too. In Inquiry we are learning about Flight and how it effects people, animals and insects. We have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings. They are up on our Inquiry wall for everyone to keep looking at and thinking about. As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games. This Term we are learning about Resilience (Taikaha) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass. We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins. We are learning lots of waiata. We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday. Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each still. They help sponser our Duffy books. We had a Role Model Assembly and got our Duffy books for the Term. We also had a visit from Harold and the Life Education Truck with Whaea Anne. We all like Harold. We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Look at all the words I can write. Learning about Time on the ipad
Reading my story at school Assembly.Getting my Duffy Book from Mr Cooper at the Role Model Assembly.
Life Education Truck with Harold. At Kapa Haka
We have been having lots of fun at school.
I have gone up 2 more levels in Reading and I am on Level 17 now.
I don't have to be on that till I have my birthday in July.
I love Reading and Spelling. I always get my words right every week.
I am getting really good at Maths now too.We have been learning about Time.
My buddy is Henry.He is my cousin and he has just started school now.
I am getting good at spelling in my stories too.
I liked it when Harold came in the big truck. ( Te Orihana)
I have still been really encouraging Te Orihana in Reading and she has made great progress.
She is slightly above the reading level she needs to be at and is reading and word solving very well.
She is also making very good progress in Writing and Maths.
She is imaging in Maths and trying all her own spelling independently in writing
We will continue to extend this progress in all areas.
(Mrs B)
March
We had an amazing March. Lots of learning and exciting activities. We even re-wrote our Goals as many students had already achieved them in one month. We continued with Getting Started ( Fitness /coordination programme), Kiwi Can (social skills & games), Patu(Maori fitness & sports programme) Grandparent’s reading(Rotary),Kapa Haka(Junior & Senior) and even found time to have a Dress up day as Heroes or Heroines. The students in Room 1 are loving learning and making great progress. We are Miharo.We rock. We show Aroha, Kaha and Mana.
Grandparent's reading with the Rotary. Doing Jump Jam for Fitness.
Dress up Day. Listening to my Buddy in class.
Getting a free Pita Pat for lunch. Doing Kapa Haka in Room 4.
We do lots of things at school. I have gone up 2 levels in Reading and I am on Level 16 now.
I liked getting a free Pita pat for showing Aroha Kaha and Mana in Room 1.
I am getting better at Maths too. Me and Hohepa are the best in the class.
Sometimes we buddy with other kids and help them if they want us to.
I like writing stories. I can write lots of sentences now.
Its fun at Kapa Haka too. ( Te Orihana)
I have been really encouraging Te Orihana in Reading and she has made great progress
since the beginning of the years in fluency, word solving and other reading skills.
She has grown in self confidence and will lead others now.
She is also making very good progress in Writing and Maths.
We will continue to extend this progress in all areas.
(Mrs B)
February
February 2016. What a fabulous start to 2016. Room 1, (Miharo-because we are awesome), started learning straight away. No-one had forgotten their Reading and all came back to school at the same level. Two groups have moved up to the next level in just 3 weeks. We are all awesome at Maths and Story-writing and Inquiry too. In Inquiry we are learning about, “What Fairy Tales can teach us. "We love learning about all the stories and doing some of them with finger puppets. We are retelling them to our buddies or the class. We even did a play to the rest of the school with the finger puppets on Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, as well as a wall story. On Tuesdays we have Matua Jackson from Patu come and visit us. He takes us for Fitness and games for 40 minutes. We also have Getting Started again with Whaea Toni for ½ hour every Wed afternoon and Fri morning for ½ hour. We learn co-ordination and fitness. We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins. On Wednesday morning we have Kiwi Can with Whaea Adele and Matua Rocky for ½ hour. We learn about Respect for ourselves, others and property. We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday. Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each. They help sponser our Duffy books. We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Patu (Fitness) with Matua Jackson. Kiwi Can with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.
Getting Started with Whaea Toni
Our Inquiry on Fairy Tales. Te Orihana as a monster.
I like all the activities we are doing this year.
I like playing soccer with Matua Jackson. I got 2 goals last week.
I think my mask is cool. I am a vampire.
We wrote stories about it and put them on the wall.
I am Reading at Level 15 now. ( Te Orihana)
A small class is helping the learning in Reading Maths and Writing
as the students are making excellent progress.
We started Reading on the 2nd day of Term 1
and already Te Orihana has gone up to a new level.
She is above her age level in Spelling and also Maths. (Mrs B)
2015
My Goals 2015
1.Learn to read books up to Level 16. 2.Learn to write stories with my own words. 3. Learn to ride a bike on the Pump Track.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1. The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety. We know to get down, get low, get out fast. We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School. We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers. It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything. We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well. The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there. We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting and playing at the new playground at Windsor park. We also had a Wet and Wild fun day. We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting. Lots of us achieved our goals in learning. 2015 was a great year. Miharo is awesome. Merry Xmas everyone.
Christmas glasses. Using google cardboard and 3D when the Mobile Learning centre came to visit us.
Relays at the Hakinakina sports. Having fun at the new playground at the park.
Wet and Wild day was cool.
I liked all the fun we had on our trips.
I liked the Mobile Learning place best.
We had lots of fun and learning using the computers and ipads and
looking at 3D things and using robots and making them work.
I am reading books at Level 14 now . My goal was Level 10 in T3.
I can ride bikes and write stories with lots of my own spelling in.
(Te Orihana)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month. We have still been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things. We have learnt about Augumented Reality . That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move. I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container. We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’. We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting. We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths. Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already. Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day. He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England. We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all. Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook. The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams. We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark. We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Jump Jam.Pizza for Tane the winning house end of Term 3
Award for Nag Toi from Matua Manu. Augumented Reality on the ipad.
The Skatepark
The Omnigym
I loved all the things at the Gym.
I was good at them .I liked all the stuff.It was fun.
(Te Orihana)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads. They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi. They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school. The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun (Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1. We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo. Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points. PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills. We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now. We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some excellent progress in those areas. The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara) in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too. The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka. We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross country group. PMP outside playing Dodge Ball
I can do coding and Skoolboon the ipad . Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry
I am learning lots on the ipads.I like doing PMP and running too. I got my Duffy book from Gerry at the Rotary. I am reading harder books now at Level 11. I want to read books up to Level 16 by the end of the year. I liked the Cross Country best. I am fast at running. (Te Orihana)
I like all the things that the students get involved in. Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports. PMP has stopped because of the price. I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present the programme independently. ipad app learning is going well. I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves. Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know. Te Orihana is at Level 11 in Reading now. She is making great progress .Mum is listening to her read at home too and helping her with her spelling homework. Te Orihana can write 1 page of story independently and is at Stage 3 Maths.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1. We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP. We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children. We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear. We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some great progress in that area. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Learning on the ipads. Having fun getting our faces painted on Sports day.
My scary wheku mask. Hearty running with us.
I liked the Sports day. We had lots of fun and played lots of games. I liked getting my face painted too. Hearty talked about being healthy. My mask is colourful. The best thing I like is learning reading, writing and Maths on the ipads. (Te Orihana)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August. I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities such as sports days and Hearty's visit. We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing. The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall. The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths. (Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo) We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane. We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school. We were involved in the Preschool opening. Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches. We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books. We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament. We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games. We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland. We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I liked making 'Not Perfect' Hats. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland.I showed him the picture I drew of him.
I liked the Duffy Theatre.I got my new Duffy book from the actor. We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games. The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland. I showed him my picture. (Te Orihana)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas), The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn (our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland (Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1. We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things. We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps. Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term, were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter. Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us about not bullying and being nice to others. We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too. We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett. Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks. We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau, Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1, and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband), who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet. We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks. It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us. One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube. He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy. We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi. We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks. May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm. In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others and not bullying and being healthy.
Watching the circus at our school. Meeting Greg Murphy the racing car driver.
Using Write about it app on the ipad
A page of her Book Creator on the Farm
Making a Mother's day Bookmark. Connecting with a dinosaur in class.
We had fun doing lots of things. I liked the trip to the Farm. I am getting good on the ipads now. I am nearly at my goal in reading. I am just starting Level 7. I have gone up in Maths and can write 3 sentences and try and spell words by myself. I liked the circus too. (Te Orihana)
Te Orihana has gone up 4 levels in reading this year and is making steady progress. She has gone up to stage 3 in Maths and is developing independence in storywriting. Next I want to accelerate her reading progress. She is working in a group with me and Miss Hall also. I also want to extend her writing and Maths skills. She has taken more of an interest in her learning now. Lots of praise and positive reinforcement and motivating work will help her continue to accelerate her progress. (Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections. We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere. Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work. We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals. We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination. We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council. We picked up Litter around our school. It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart. We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly. We will make lots of other connections this term. We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths. We know o’clock and half past. We are all improving in our reading. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories. We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate. We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads. Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki. (Mrs B)
I likedmaking Easter eggs. Mine was funny. I am getting better at reading. I am at Level 6 soon. I am learning to spell some of the words in my stories now. I want to spell lots of the words in my stories My goal is to write 3 sentences by myself and spell most of the words.. I liked balancing on the balancing things in PMP. (Te Orihana)
I want to further extend Te Orihana in reading. She is now making steady progress. Her reading group gets extra support from a Teachers aide. I want to also extend her interest in spelling most of her own words in story-writing. Next we will also extend Te Orihana's counting on and imaging skills in Mathematics.
(Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Making Easter eggs.
My Comic Life with Van showing shapes outside in the playground. Balancing on the stilts in PMP.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening. We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus. We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere. We had fun and loved all the games and free swim. In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates. We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things. We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae. We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish. We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins. We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now. Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground. We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too. Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey. We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck. We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool. (Mrs B & R1)
I liked making the paper in the recycling. It was grey and took ages to dry. The Transfer station had lots of rubbish and recycling. I liked Mr Mac's big truck and my Duffy books. The skate park was fun. I liked all the ramps and the playground.. I also liked the Hakinakina swimming. It was cold there. (Te Orihana)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
Hakinakina Swimming Sports anbd making a lego car. Making recycled paper and at the Transfer Station recycling. I've got a book. The firemen came and showed us the fire engine. Mr Mac showed us his big truck
Here I am doing Mahi Toi with Matua Manu
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had. We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track. That is a goal of many in the class. We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next. We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them. We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment. Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling. We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories. Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo. Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote. Miharo is cool. Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the Pump Track now but go on the little hills. I like SkoolBo and other learning apps on the ipad. I am getting better at reading. I am reading at Level 4 now. I am learning to spell some of my own words in my stories. I am learning to do adding in Maths too. I am at Stage 2. (Te Orihana)
Next goals for Te Orihana are to write 3 sentences spelling some of her own words in story writing. Te Orihana is counting well up to 30. She needs to extend this and keep practising her addition. With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling she will improve in those areas. She is making steady progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn. She is also getting better on the Pump track but still likes going on the smaller hills. ( Mrs B)
Te Orihana's Maths graph and her starting to write her own words in story writing
2014
My name is Te Orihana. I am 5 years old. I am in Room 2. I am at Riverslea School.
My Goals 2014
1. Learn to read lots of books. 2.Learn to write my name and write stories. 3. Learn to count up to 25 in Maths.
November/December
We have been very busy with the 4th term activities. -We had a Survivor day, related to our term Inquiry “Survival.” We did relays like Crossing the Road, In the City, Water Safety , Mountain safety etc. The tamariki loved them. Thanks to Sally from Sports HB for lending us all the equipment for 2 afternoons. -We have still been learning with Maths and Writing and Reading. Some children have made amazing progress. A writing focus is on my teacher registration wiki, as it was one of my classroom goals for the year. -We started swimming again in the school pool. All the children are water confident except for one. -We attended the Hakinakina Athletics day at the HB Sports Park against 7 other schools. Some children got placed in their age group, -We all rode in a Double Decker bus to Cornwall park, where we fed the ducks , looked at the birds, played in the playground and had a swim on the Splash pad. -Miharo joined the Preschool for their Xmas party at Inflatable World which they really enjoyed. - Lots of tamariki got trophies at Prizegiving. -The most amazing event though was our trip to Haumoana Zoo. This was again related to our Inquiry, the focus being on Survival and animals. The children fed the lambs, brushed the donkey, said Hello to the talking Cockatiel, led a Llama around the zoo , held rats and guinea pigs and saw 35 different animals and birds. To top it all off they had a fun playground too. -The tamariki have been involved in lots of educational activities and learning as well as outdoor education experiences too. What a busy and fun term it has been. Only the school Disco to go. ( Mrs Bennett)
I liked Inflatable world and Cornwall Park. They were lots of fun. The best thing was holding the guinea pigs at the Haumoana Zoo. We saw lots of animals and birds and played in the playground there. I can read up to Level 3 now and write some words in my own story. I am still learning to do my goals. (Te Orihana)
October
We can have fun while learning
We went to the A and P show. We had lots of fun there and learnt lots of things. We went to the Farmyard zoo and got to hold and pat lots of baby animals. We went on the rides and found them exciting. It was hard to eat up all our hotdog and drink our drink as they were big. We watched the Ronald MacDonald show. He remembered us from when he came to our school. He was funny and nice to us. We loved Mr Mac and Doug the Digger. Some of us had turns on making the Digger go at the show. At school 2 days before he let us all climb in his big truck. (Room 2 Student Voice)
I liked everything at the show. Mr Mac let me drive Doug the Digger. It was cool.(Te Orihana)
September
The Arts
We have been talking about the Arts in Inquiry. We know that there are 4 Arts that we do. These are Dance, Drama, Visual Arts such as Crayon and Dye and painting and Music. We have been doing lots of singing. We sing waiata at Assembly every day and in class. Mrs Bennett puts the songs up on a data projector and we sing the words and listen to them on the ipad. We also use instruments as well. We kani kani in class and at lunchtimes, when the music is on. We have been doing lots of visual Art such as crayon and dye, shape pictures, collage, painting, masks and pattern pictures as well as Maori Art. We also learnt the Legends of Maui and the North Island and Maui and the sun, as well as fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs. We had turns saying them back to the class and the preschool. We used finger puppets too. (Class) I was Little Red Riding with the Finger puppets. It was fun.We did it to the preschool. (Te Orihana)
Writing
I have been learning to write stories. I want to learn to write my own words. I copy what I say to Mrs Bennett at the moment. I am getting better at writing words.(Te Orihana) I have been encouraging Te Orihana to write words in stories. She can copy the words from the whiteboard. Next I want to encourage her to try and write some of her own words. (Mrs Bennett)
August
ipads
I am learning to code on the ipad. Mrs Bennett and Boyden helped me. I can make animals and people and things I can change them and make them bigger and smaller and move. I like using Reading and Maths apps too. (Te Orihana) I showed the children how to use Scratch Jnr app on the ipad. The children can make a variety of characters and change them accordingly. They can write words or record their voice. I circulate and assist if needed to support or help. They are coding because they are giving the ipad directions and changing things around. Te Orihana loves this learning app and is enjoying using Reading, Writing and Maths apps too. (Mrs Bennett)
Fun on the scooter
We had fun on the scooters. I am getting good on a scooter. We play on them at play-times and lunch-times.It is fun. Moira helped me. It was fun .(Te Orihana)
The Bike Track
I can now ride a bike around the bike track. I have just started school. I still use trainer wheels. (Te Orihana) I am encouraging and supporting Te Orihana to keep trying. I give her lots of opportunities to practise her skills. At first she was reluctant to even go on the bike as she can be quite shy. Now she enjoys riding around the track. ( Mrs Bennett)
Table of Contents
2016
Pepeha
Ko Ngati Puhi taku iwiKo Epere toku papa
Ko Katherine toku mama
Ko Vanessa taku tuahine
Ko Manu raua Ko Tommi taku tungane
Ko Heretaunga toku kainga
Ko Riverslea toku kura
Ko Te Orihana taku ingoa
No reira
tena koutou
tena koutou
tena koutou
katoa
My Goals 2016
Feb-Mar
Mar/ Updated in May
Term 3 (Extended in T4)
Term 4 2016
Term 4 was full of learning and activities.We had lots of things going on at Riverslea and around.
We had an awesome Duffy Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger and Peter Charlton Jones.
We also had the School Cross Country and also did lots of Play based learning
to try to learn to share and cooperate and work together.
We went to the A and P Show as well as visited Barnadoes Preschool
and the Riverslea Community Preschool, who also visited us.
We loved Skipping and Jump Rope for Heart.
The trip to Napier and the Aquarium was fun.
We had the School Prizegiving and made up our own song “The 12 Days of Riverslea Christmas”
We are all looking forward to Xmas and Next year
(Mrs B )
I have reached my goal for Reading and have gone up 8 levels in reading this year.
I am at Level 22 which is a year above National Standard.
I am at Stage 5 Maths which is also above National Standard
and have gone up from Stage 3 to Stage 5 this year.
I have also gone up a level in Writing and am at National Standard.
Te Orihana.
August/Sept
We are still learning and being involved in lots of activities. Our Inquiry has been about the Rio Olympics 2016.We learnt a lot about different countries and different sports. We each had our own country at the Olympics.
Harmony’s country USA came first with the most medals. They got 116 medals ( 43gold, 37 silver, 36 bronze).
Te Orihana came 2nd with Great Britain who got 66 medals. Kadyn had NZ who got 18 medals (4gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze).
We also watched some of the ParaOlympics which made the students aware of different disabilities
and how people use ways to overcome them to win medals eg Blind cyclists and runners and swimmers with only 1 leg.
We had our own school Olympics which the students loved. They also got medals. Participation for the tabloids
and Gold, Silver ,Bronze for the age races. It was well supported by whanau.
All students have made great progress, some being a year above in Reading and 6 months above in Writing and Maths.
This term Room 1 has also been involved in a NZ wide programme for Junior classes called #NZReadAloud.
We connect with other classes around NZ (10 in all) from Auckland to Dunedin and share our ideas, art work,
writing etc on a blog. It is all related to a common chosen book that we are all reading to our class.
It is called A Booming in the Night By Ben Brown , a NZ author.
As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games.
This Term we are learning about Cooperation (Whanaungatanga) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass.
We have had ‘Getting started’ again T3 with a council funded programme on fitness and coordination skills.
We have had Whaea Toni and Matua Julian this term.
Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday has continued.
Some of us go and read to them for 15 minutes each. They help sponser our Duffy books.
We had a Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger (storyteller) and Peter Charlton-Jones (musician)
and got our Duffy books for the Term.We also had 2 Role Models form Karamu High come to talk to use about being leaders.
We were lucky to have Mr Kevin a Preschool Teacher volunteer time 2 days a week for most of the term.
He fixed all of our school bikes for us. The children are loving being out on the bike track again.
Whaea Monique (Student Teacher from last year) also volunteers in the classes 2 days a week.
It is great to have her skills and empathy with the students.
Another highlight for the students was a visit from 2 Magpies Chris Eaton and Matt Garland.
They talked to the students about being role models and then took them for games.
They loved the Touch Rugby.
It has been another awesome term for Miharo (Room1).
School Olympics. Getting started activities.
The Magpies Rugby team.Playing Touch Rugby. My Nga Toi tile
We've had lots of fun with all the things we've done.
I liked the Magpies and doing my tile koru pattern.
The Duffy Theatre was fun too.
I have gone up another 2 levels in Reading (Level 20) and I am going on Level 21 next week.
I love Reading and Spelling,Writing and Maths. I still always get all my words right every week.
I like Getting Started. We do lots off activities together.
(Te Orihana)
Te Orihana is still making excellent progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
She is a leader of learning and in behaviour in the classroom.
Next we want to further extend her Reading progress(Expected Level 18.)
Our goal was to get to Y3 level (Level 21) by the end of T3.
This has been achieved. She is just starting this level.
As a result she is a year above National Standard in Reading.
We want to get beginning Level 23 by the end of the year.
Level 24 is the next year level to achieve by 9 yrs.
I do not want to push her too hard as she is successful and is finding some of the comprehension
and story topics harder at this level so consolidation and reinforcement of knowledge is also important.
Also to continue to consolidate and extend her written language including
language features and nouns adjectives and verbs.
In Maths we are on target to reach the end of Stage 4 by the end of the year.
(Mrs B)
June/July
June and July were also busy months with 2 weeks holiday in July for the end of Term 2.We are all still making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry.
Some students have gone up several levels in Reading
and they, and others, moved up stages in Maths and Writing as well.
In Inquiry we are learning about the Olympic Games in Rio in Term 3.
We loved our Inquiry about Flight and learnt a lot.
We always have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings.
We have fun finding out the information.
As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.
We also have Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings.
We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.
We just had a Duffy Theatre performance about Time Travel and got our Duffy books for the Term. It was great fun.
We also had lots of learning with our class buddies and our school buddies too.
We had Irene Van Dyke a famous NZ Netballer come to speak to us. She was very tall (6ft 3 inches).
She gave us all a bag from Netball Hawkes Bay and some balls for our PE gear.
Paora came from the Council to help us set up a new worm garden. We got to hold the worms. They were slimy.
We also had Todd and Nathan from the Army come and teach us how to march and do push ups.
We are Miharo too.We are awesome
My school buddy. Our Inquiry on Flight
Bubbles for Flight. The worm Farm.Holding worms
The Duffy Theatre actors. Marching with Sergeant Nathan from the Army
We have been doing lots of things at school.
I have gone up another level in Reading (Level 18) and I am going on Level 19 next week.
I still love Reading and Spelling and I still always get my words right every week.
I am getting really good at Maths now too.I am on Stage 4.
It was fun blowing bubbles but I didn't like the worms.They were slimy.
The Duffy Theatre was funny. I liked marching with Nathan from the Army.
(Te Orihana)
Te Orihana has been making excellent progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
She is responsible and helpful class member who loves learning.
She is very popular in class and has many friends.
She joins in all activities inside and outside the classroom.
She has a very good memory too.
(She beats me in Memory (the card game) all the time.
Next we want to further extend her Reading progress(Expected Level 16.)
Our goal is to get to Y3 level (Level 21) by the end of T3.
Also to consolidate and extend her written language including
language features.She is using contractions
and our goal is to make more use of verbs and adjectives etc.
In Maths to reach the end of Stage 4 by the end of the year.
(Mrs B)
April/May
We are all making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry too.In Inquiry we are learning about Flight and how it effects people, animals and insects.
We have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings.
They are up on our Inquiry wall for everyone to keep looking at and thinking about.
As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games.
This Term we are learning about Resilience (Taikaha) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass.
We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins.
We are learning lots of waiata.
We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.
Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each still.
They help sponser our Duffy books.
We had a Role Model Assembly and got our Duffy books for the Term.
We also had a visit from Harold and the Life Education Truck with Whaea Anne.
We all like Harold.
We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Look at all the words I can write. Learning about Time on the ipad
Reading my story at school Assembly.Getting my Duffy Book from Mr Cooper at the Role Model Assembly.
Life Education Truck with Harold. At Kapa Haka
We have been having lots of fun at school.
I have gone up 2 more levels in Reading and I am on Level 17 now.
I don't have to be on that till I have my birthday in July.
I love Reading and Spelling. I always get my words right every week.
I am getting really good at Maths now too.We have been learning about Time.
My buddy is Henry.He is my cousin and he has just started school now.
I am getting good at spelling in my stories too.
I liked it when Harold came in the big truck. ( Te Orihana)
I have still been really encouraging Te Orihana in Reading and she has made great progress.
She is slightly above the reading level she needs to be at and is reading and word solving very well.
She is also making very good progress in Writing and Maths.
She is imaging in Maths and trying all her own spelling independently in writing
We will continue to extend this progress in all areas.
(Mrs B)
March
We had an amazing March. Lots of learning and exciting activities.We even re-wrote our Goals as many students had already achieved
them in one month.
We continued with Getting Started ( Fitness /coordination programme),
Kiwi Can (social skills & games), Patu(Maori fitness & sports programme)
Grandparent’s reading(Rotary),Kapa Haka(Junior & Senior)
and even found time to have a Dress up day as Heroes or Heroines.
The students in Room 1 are loving learning and making great progress.
We are Miharo.We rock. We show Aroha, Kaha and Mana.
Grandparent's reading with the Rotary. Doing Jump Jam for Fitness.
Dress up Day. Listening to my Buddy in class.
Getting a free Pita Pat for lunch. Doing Kapa Haka in Room 4.
We do lots of things at school. I have gone up 2 levels in Reading and I am on Level 16 now.
I liked getting a free Pita pat for showing Aroha Kaha and Mana in Room 1.
I am getting better at Maths too. Me and Hohepa are the best in the class.
Sometimes we buddy with other kids and help them if they want us to.
I like writing stories. I can write lots of sentences now.
Its fun at Kapa Haka too. ( Te Orihana)
I have been really encouraging Te Orihana in Reading and she has made great progress
since the beginning of the years in fluency, word solving and other reading skills.
She has grown in self confidence and will lead others now.
She is also making very good progress in Writing and Maths.
We will continue to extend this progress in all areas.
(Mrs B)
February
February 2016.What a fabulous start to 2016. Room 1, (Miharo-because we are awesome),
started learning straight away.
No-one had forgotten their Reading and all came back to school at the same level.
Two groups have moved up to the next level in just 3 weeks.
We are all awesome at Maths and Story-writing and Inquiry too.
In Inquiry we are learning about, “What Fairy Tales can teach us.
"We love learning about all the stories and doing some of them with finger puppets.
We are retelling them to our buddies or the class.
We even did a play to the rest of the school with the finger puppets on
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, as well as a wall story.
On Tuesdays we have Matua Jackson from Patu come and visit us.
He takes us for Fitness and games for 40 minutes.
We also have Getting Started again with Whaea Toni for ½ hour
every Wed afternoon and Fri morning for ½ hour.
We learn co-ordination and fitness.
We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins.
On Wednesday morning we have Kiwi Can with Whaea Adele and Matua Rocky for ½ hour.
We learn about Respect for ourselves, others and property.
We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.
Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each. They help sponser our Duffy books.
We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Patu (Fitness) with Matua Jackson. Kiwi Can with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.
Getting Started with Whaea Toni
Our Inquiry on Fairy Tales. Te Orihana as a monster.
I like all the activities we are doing this year.
I like playing soccer with Matua Jackson. I got 2 goals last week.
I think my mask is cool. I am a vampire.
We wrote stories about it and put them on the wall.
I am Reading at Level 15 now. ( Te Orihana)
A small class is helping the learning in Reading Maths and Writing
as the students are making excellent progress.
We started Reading on the 2nd day of Term 1
and already Te Orihana has gone up to a new level.
She is above her age level in Spelling and also Maths. (Mrs B)
2015
My Goals 2015
1.Learn to read books up to Level 16.2. Learn to write stories with my own words.
3. Learn to ride a bike on the Pump Track.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1.
The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety.
We know to get down, get low, get out fast.
We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School.
We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers.
It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything.
We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space
and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well.
The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there.
We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting
and playing at the new playground at Windsor park.
We also had a Wet and Wild fun day.
We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas
and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting.
Lots of us achieved our goals in learning.
2015 was a great year.
Miharo is awesome.
Merry Xmas everyone.
Christmas glasses. Using google cardboard and 3D when the Mobile Learning centre came to visit us.
Relays at the Hakinakina sports. Having fun at the new playground at the park.
Wet and Wild day was cool.
I liked all the fun we had on our trips.
I liked the Mobile Learning place best.
We had lots of fun and learning using the computers and ipads and
looking at 3D things and using robots and making them work.
I am reading books at Level 14 now . My goal was Level 10 in T3.
I can ride bikes and write stories with lots of my own spelling in.
(Te Orihana)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month.
We have still been learning lots with our buddies
and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things.
We have learnt about Augumented Reality .
That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move.
I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container.
We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’.
We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting.
We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already.
Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day.
He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England.
We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all.
Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook.
The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities
and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams.
We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark.
We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Jump Jam.Pizza for Tane the winning house end of Term 3
Award for Nag Toi from Matua Manu. Augumented Reality on the ipad.
The Skatepark
The Omnigym
I loved all the things at the Gym.
I was good at them .I liked all the stuff.It was fun.
(Te Orihana)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads.
They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi.
They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school.
The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun
(Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1.We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo.
Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points.
PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills.
We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau
and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now.
We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some excellent progress in those areas.
The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara)
in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too.
The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka.
We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross country group. PMP outside playing Dodge Ball
I can do coding and Skoolboon the ipad . Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry
I am learning lots on the ipads.I like doing PMP and running too.
I got my Duffy book from Gerry at the Rotary.
I am reading harder books now at Level 11.
I want to read books up to Level 16 by the end of the year.
I liked the Cross Country best.
I am fast at running.
(Te Orihana)
I like all the things that the students get involved in.
Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports.
PMP has stopped because of the price.
I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present
the programme independently.
ipad app learning is going well.
I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves.
Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know.
Te Orihana is at Level 11 in Reading now. She is making great progress
.Mum is listening to her read at home too and helping her with her spelling homework.
Te Orihana can write 1 page of story independently and is at Stage 3 Maths.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1.
We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads
for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP.
We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as
Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as
a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch
and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and
our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term.
Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children.
We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle
raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear.
We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some great progress in that area.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Learning on the ipads. Having fun getting our faces painted on Sports day.
My scary wheku mask. Hearty running with us.
I liked the Sports day. We had lots of fun and played lots of games.
I liked getting my face painted too.
Hearty talked about being healthy. My mask is colourful.
The best thing I like is learning reading, writing and Maths on the ipads.
(Te Orihana)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August.
I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities
such as sports days and Hearty's visit.
We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing.
The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall.
The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths.
(Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo)
We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane.
We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school.
We were involved in the Preschool opening.
Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches.
We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books.
We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament.
We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games.
We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland.
We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I liked making 'Not Perfect' Hats. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland.I showed him the picture I drew of him.
I liked the Duffy Theatre.I got my new Duffy book from the actor.
We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games.
The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland.
I showed him my picture.
(Te Orihana)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities
and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas),
The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn
(our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland
(Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1.We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things.
We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps.
Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term,
were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter.
Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us
about not bullying and being nice to others.
We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too.
We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher
and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett.
Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau,
Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1,
and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband),
who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet.
We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn
and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks.
It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us.
One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube.
He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy.
We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi.
We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks.
May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about
being nice to others and not bullying and being healthy.
Watching the circus at our school. Meeting Greg Murphy the racing car driver.
Using Write about it app on the ipad
A page of her Book Creator on the Farm
Making a Mother's day Bookmark. Connecting with a dinosaur in class.
We had fun doing lots of things.
I liked the trip to the Farm.
I am getting good on the ipads now.
I am nearly at my goal in reading.
I am just starting Level 7.
I have gone up in Maths and can write 3 sentences
and try and spell words by myself.
I liked the circus too.
(Te Orihana)
Te Orihana has gone up 4 levels in reading this year and is making steady progress.
She has gone up to stage 3 in Maths and is developing independence in storywriting.
Next I want to accelerate her reading progress. She is working in a group with me and Miss Hall also.
I also want to extend her writing and Maths skills.
She has taken more of an interest in her learning now.
Lots of praise and positive reinforcement and motivating work
will help her continue to accelerate her progress.
(Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections.We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere.
Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work.
We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals.
We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool
and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination.
We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council.
We picked up Litter around our school.
It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart.
We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly.
We will make lots of other connections this term.
We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths.
We know o’clock and half past.
We are all improving in our reading.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories.
We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate.
We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school
and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads.
Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki.
(Mrs B)
I liked making Easter eggs. Mine was funny.
I am getting better at reading. I am at Level 6 soon.
I am learning to spell some of the words in my stories now.
I want to spell lots of the words in my stories
My goal is to write 3 sentences by myself and spell most of the words..
I liked balancing on the balancing things in PMP.
(Te Orihana)
I want to further extend Te Orihana in reading. She is now making steady progress.
Her reading group gets extra support from a Teachers aide.
I want to also extend her interest in spelling most of her own words in story-writing.
Next we will also extend Te Orihana's counting on and imaging skills in Mathematics.
(Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Making Easter eggs.
My Comic Life with Van showing shapes outside in the playground. Balancing on the stilts in PMP.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening.We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus.
We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere.
We had fun and loved all the games and free swim.
In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates.
We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things.
We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae.
We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish.
We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins.
We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now.
Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground.
We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too.
Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey.
We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again
for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck.
We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool.
(Mrs B & R1)
I liked making the paper in the recycling.
It was grey and took ages to dry.
The Transfer station had lots of rubbish and recycling.
I liked Mr Mac's big truck and my Duffy books.
The skate park was fun. I liked all the ramps and the playground..
I also liked the Hakinakina swimming.
It was cold there.
(Te Orihana)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
Hakinakina Swimming Sports anbd making a lego car.
Making recycled paper and at the Transfer Station recycling. I've got a book.
The firemen came and showed us the fire engine. Mr Mac showed us his big truck
Here I am doing Mahi Toi with Matua Manu
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had.We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track.
That is a goal of many in the class.
We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next.
We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them.
We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment.
Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling.
We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories.
Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo.
Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote.
Miharo is cool.
Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the Pump Track now but go on the little hills.
I like SkoolBo and other learning apps on the ipad.
I am getting better at reading.
I am reading at Level 4 now.
I am learning to spell some of my own words in my stories.
I am learning to do adding in Maths too.
I am at Stage 2. (Te Orihana)
Next goals for Te Orihana are to write 3 sentences spelling some of her own words in story writing.
Te Orihana is counting well up to 30. She needs to extend this and keep practising her addition.
With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling she will improve in those areas.
She is making steady progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn.
She is also getting better on the Pump track but still likes going on the smaller hills.
( Mrs B)
Te Orihana's Maths graph and her starting to write her own words in story writing
2014
My name is Te Orihana.I am 5 years old.
I am in Room 2.
I am at Riverslea School.
My Goals 2014
1. Learn to read lots of books.2. Learn to write my name and write stories.
3. Learn to count up to 25 in Maths.
November/December
We have been very busy with the 4th term activities.-We had a Survivor day, related to our term Inquiry “Survival.”
We did relays like Crossing the Road, In the City, Water Safety ,
Mountain safety etc. The tamariki loved them.
Thanks to Sally from Sports HB for lending us all the equipment for 2 afternoons.
-We have still been learning with Maths and Writing and Reading.
Some children have made amazing progress. A writing focus is on my teacher registration wiki,
as it was one of my classroom goals for the year.
-We started swimming again in the school pool. All the children are water confident except for one.
-We attended the Hakinakina Athletics day at the HB Sports Park against 7 other schools.
Some children got placed in their age group,
-We all rode in a Double Decker bus to Cornwall park, where we fed the ducks , looked at the birds,
played in the playground and had a swim on the Splash pad.
-Miharo joined the Preschool for their Xmas party at Inflatable World which they really enjoyed.
- Lots of tamariki got trophies at Prizegiving.
-The most amazing event though was our trip to Haumoana Zoo.
This was again related to our Inquiry, the focus being on Survival and animals.
The children fed the lambs, brushed the donkey, said Hello to the talking Cockatiel,
led a Llama around the zoo , held rats and guinea pigs and saw 35 different animals and birds.
To top it all off they had a fun playground too.
-The tamariki have been involved in lots of educational activities and learning
as well as outdoor education experiences too. What a busy and fun term it has been.
Only the school Disco to go. ( Mrs Bennett)
I liked Inflatable world and Cornwall Park. They were lots of fun.
The best thing was holding the guinea pigs at the Haumoana Zoo.
We saw lots of animals and birds and played in the playground there.
I can read up to Level 3 now and write some words in my own story.
I am still learning to do my goals. (Te Orihana)
October
We can have fun while learning
We went to the A and P show. We had lots of fun there and learnt lots of things.
We went to the Farmyard zoo and got to hold and pat lots of baby animals.
We went on the rides and found them exciting.
It was hard to eat up all our hotdog and drink our drink as they were big.
We watched the Ronald MacDonald show.
He remembered us from when he came to our school.
He was funny and nice to us.
We loved Mr Mac and Doug the Digger.
Some of us had turns on making the Digger go at the show.
At school 2 days before he let us all climb in his big truck.
(Room 2 Student Voice)
I liked everything at the show.
Mr Mac let me drive Doug the Digger.
It was cool.(Te Orihana)
September
The Arts
We have been talking about the Arts in Inquiry. We know that there are 4 Arts that we do.
These are Dance, Drama, Visual Arts such as Crayon and Dye and painting and Music.
We have been doing lots of singing. We sing waiata at Assembly every day and in class.
Mrs Bennett puts the songs up on a data projector and we sing the words and listen
to them on the ipad. We also use instruments as well. We kani kani in class
and at lunchtimes, when the music is on. We have been doing lots of visual Art
such as crayon and dye, shape pictures, collage, painting, masks and pattern pictures
as well as Maori Art.
We also learnt the Legends of Maui and the North Island and Maui and the sun,
as well as fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs.
We had turns saying them back to the class and the preschool. We used finger puppets too.
(Class)
I was Little Red Riding with the Finger puppets.
It was fun.We did it to the preschool.
(Te Orihana)
Writing
I have been learning to write stories. I want to learn to write my own words.
I copy what I say to Mrs Bennett at the moment.
I am getting better at writing words.(Te Orihana)
I have been encouraging Te Orihana to write words in stories.
She can copy the words from the whiteboard.
Next I want to encourage her to try and write some of her own words.
(Mrs Bennett)
August
ipads
I am learning to code on the ipad. Mrs Bennett and Boyden helped me.
I can make animals and people and things
I can change them and make them bigger and smaller and move.
I like using Reading and Maths apps too.
(Te Orihana)
I showed the children how to use Scratch Jnr app on the ipad.
The children can make a variety of characters and change them accordingly.
They can write words or record their voice.
I circulate and assist if needed to support or help.
They are coding because they are giving the ipad directions and changing things around.
Te Orihana loves this learning app and is enjoying using Reading, Writing and Maths apps too.
(Mrs Bennett)
Fun on the scooter
We had fun on the scooters. I am getting good on a scooter.
We play on them at play-times and lunch-times.It is fun.
Moira helped me. It was fun .(Te Orihana)
The Bike Track
I can now ride a bike around the bike track.
I have just started school.
I still use trainer wheels. (Te Orihana)
I am encouraging and supporting Te Orihana to keep trying.
I give her lots of opportunities to practise her skills.
At first she was reluctant to even go on the bike as she can be quite shy.
Now she enjoys riding around the track.
( Mrs Bennett)